On March 31, 2026, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) released its annual Dirty Dozen List naming twelve mainstream entities it accuses of "facilitating, enabling, and even profiting from sexual abuse and exploitation." The 2026 list is notable for its heavy focus on AI-powered harms and marks the first time a social media CEO — Mark Zuckerberg — has been named individually rather than through his company.

Why It Matters

The 2026 Dirty Dozen reflects the rapidly shifting landscape of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation, with AI and deepfakes now dominating concerns that were once centered on traditional content moderation failures. Grok's inclusion — alongside the ongoing Grok deepfake litigation in Baltimore and the EU Parliament's nudification ban — signals that AI-generated sexual imagery has become the industry's most urgent regulatory flashpoint. For the sex tech industry specifically, the list underscores the collateral damage that platform-level content failures create: when Amazon hosts dangerous products and Steam lacks age gates, the resulting moral panic tightens restrictions on legitimate sexual wellness companies that have nothing to do with exploitation.

The twelve entities named are: Amazon (for algorithmically surfacing child-like sex dolls), Android (for lacking built-in sextortion safeguards), the Apple App Store (for hosting deepfake "nudify" tools and stranger-connection apps for 13-year-olds), Google Chromebooks (for exposing students to pornography through educational devices), Discord (for enabling grooming and CSAM distribution through private channels), Grok (for AI chatbots that normalize sexual violence and image generators that create nonconsensual sexual content), Snapchat (for ignoring abuse reports and dismissing safety fixes to protect engagement metrics), Steam (for lacking age verification on sexually explicit games), Telegram (for prioritizing encryption over child safety), TikTok (for predator exploitation of messaging and livestream features), X/Twitter (for taking "no action" on child sexual abuse material), and Mark Zuckerberg personally (for Meta's algorithmic predator recommendations and sexualized AI chatbots).

NCOSE also released a Watch List flagging Character.AI, Reddit, Roblox, and Spotify for concerning practices. The organization claims its campaign has "galvanized thousands" since 2013 and yielded corporate policy changes at Google, Netflix, and other major companies.

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Update — 2026-04-03

Initial entry — story first created.